No More Sunlight in Arizona and Hawaii

Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Nation) and Hawaii and the territories of Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa are the only places in the U.S. that do not observe DST but instead stay on “standard time” all year long. And if you’ve spent any time in the sweltering summer sun in those regions you can understand why residents don’t need another hour of sunlight.

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Now, you can fiddle with a clock all you want, but messing with a timepiece isn’t going to change the number of hours of sunlight any area gets a day. It will shift the times around, but that’s about the limit.

I live in Arizona and LOVE that we don’t observe daylight savings time. If we did, it would be 110 in daylight at 9 PM. As it stands, it’s only 100 at 9 PM – but at least it’s dark. We’ve not yet had an overnight low of 100 but we have had the mid-90s – at 2 AM. So even though the quote is not accurate, where the daylight is spread out makes all the difference. Even though the sun is coming up at 4:45 AM – it’s still easier to wake up. (I moved here from Fort Worth – so I know from hot, humid summers). Love your blog!